EARNEST
OF THE PROMISE!
By Robert
E. Hanna
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 1:11-14
The great and overwhelming uniqueness of our positional security is the prime ingredient of salvation by grace through faith under the dispensation of the grace of God. How pathetic it is to observe those saints of God who do not recognize this incomparable blessing — those who concern themselves with pleading with God to grant this favor or that desire, and to "save them in the end". There are so many who "hope" to enter into eternal rest, when they should be rejoicing in the assurance that they are already established for ever as heavenly citizens.
What will heaven be like? We do not know. But notice what we DO know! "When Christ, Who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory" (Col. 3:4). Is there something more to be desired?
"For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body..." (Phil. 3:20, 21). Can anything more desirous be envisioned?
And while awaiting that glorious event, we have the assurance that Christ, Who is very God, governs our lives by the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, and that God "is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3:20).
How do we know these astounding expectations to be real and irreversible? By the very Word of God itself. "After that ye believed, YE WERE SEALED WITH THAT HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE, which is the earnest [the seal] of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory." THAT'S how we know! Instead of wringing our hands in despair and begging petty favors, we are to be "looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity..." (Titus 2:13, 14).
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